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Chapter 18<\/a><\/p>\n << Chapter 18 Verse 16<\/a><\/p>\n yasya nAhankruthO bhAvO budhdhir yasya na lipyathE |<\/em> yasya bhAva: – The thoughts of the one (on the doership) The one whose thoughts are not arising from the pride of “I am the doer”, whose intellect is free from the thoughts such as “the results of this action are mine”, “this action is mine”, even if he kills all the beings in this world (in a battle), he will not be considered as the killer; he will not be bound in this samsAram (material realm) as a result of such killing.<\/p>\n ‘He who is exempt from \u2018self-ness,\u2019 whose mind Self-ness (=aha\u1e47k\u1e5biti=aha\u1e47k\u0101ra)<\/em> = Egoity = that function of the mind which attaches to one\u2019s own self the notion of \u2018I do the act\u2019 (aham karomi<\/em>) arising out of self-love. This idea is absent in him who is sufficiently enlightened to refer all agentship to Paramapurusha.<\/span><\/p>\n Whose mind is not tainted<\/em> = \u2018Since I am no (independent) agent, the fruit resulting from the act, does not concern me. The act itself is not mine.\u2019 Whose enlightenment is of this sort, his mind is said to be untainted. The inference is that though he kill all these people (lok\u0101n<\/em>) \u2014i.e.,<\/em> not merely Bh\u012bshma etc.,\u2014 in the conflict, he killeth not<\/em>. Hence by the act called war, he is not fettered<\/em> i.e.,<\/em> he does not commit himself in a manner so as to be a party to share in the good or the evil fruit consequent on such an act.<\/span><\/p>\n That this (higher) reflection of one\u2019s not being (independently) actor, arises from the prevalence of Satva-gu\u1e47a, that Satvam is therefore worthy of acquisition (or culture), and that differences in acts result from the Gu\u1e47as, are now explained at length in order to demonstrate wherein inducement or incentive to act lies.<\/span><\/p>\n >> Chapter 18 Verse 18<\/a><\/p>\n archived in https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n pramEyam (goal) \u2013 http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a> SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 18 << Chapter 18 Verse 16 SlOkam \u2013 Original yasya nAhankruthO bhAvO budhdhir yasya na lipyathE | hathvA’pi sa imAn lokAn nahanthi na nibadhyathE || word-by-word meaning yasya bhAva: – The thoughts of the one (on the doership) na ahankrutha: – are not arising … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-18","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}SlOkam \u2013 Original<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n hathvA’pi sa imAn lokAn nahanthi na nibadhyathE ||<\/em><\/p>\nword-by-word meaning <\/h3>\n
\nna ahankrutha: – are not arising from the pride of “I am the doer”
\nyasya budhdhi: – the intellect of the one
\nna lipyathE – is free from the thoughts such as “the results of this action are mine”, “this action is mine”
\nsa: – he
\nimAn lOkAn hathvA api – even if he kills all the beings in this world (in a battle)
\nna hanthi – will not be considered as the killer;
\nna nibadhyathE – will not be bound in this samsAram (material realm) as a result of such killing.<\/p>\nSimple Translation <\/h3>\n
Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n
\nis not tainted, \u2014even though he kill those beings, he kills not, nor is he fettered<\/a>.’<\/span><\/p>\n
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